Make sure to do this assignment AFTER listening to the South Asia PowerPoint lecture. Despite the fact that Kashmir and Jammu are disputed territories between Pakistan and India (which causes conflicts), apparently there is a tourism industry in these places. Do some research and watch video on the tourism industry of these places. How are they being portrayed? What does the tourism industry tell you about the physical and human geography of the areas? Is the conflict being talked about at all? After this research, would you go to this area-why or why not?
Type your submission in the textbox provided. You should write between 10 – 12 sentences. Make sure you have citations done in the proper format

SOUTH ASIA! THE MYSTICAL REGION!

DEFINING THE REGION
Diverse but unified, why?

Small in territory by DENSELY POPULATED!!!!

India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives!

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY!
Diverse physical geography

Mountains vs Monsoon

Northern Mountains, River Lowlands, Southern Plateaus

HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY!
Indus Valley Civilization

First Euro Invaders: Aryans and Greeks!

Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Jainism

British Invaders? They did some good this time.???

Partition: Caused some issues between India and Pakistan that is still going on today

CONTEMPORARY GEOGRAPHY
Population is growing, may overtake China!

Population Geography and Physiologic Density!

Demographic Burden and Gender Bias

Importance of Agriculture

Extreme Weather Events: Hotter Summers, Wetter Monsoons, and Extreme Drought

Lots of poverty here and it is BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SUB-REGIONS: PAKISTAN
Home to realms earliest civilization!

The size of La and Tx combined!

Islam unites Pakistan but still Sunni and Shiites have issues

Kashmir and Jammu

SUB-REGIONS: INDIA
Most populated and richest sub-region, worlds largest democracy

Religion, language, and issues!

Boundary issues!

Sikhism! Hindutva! Urbanization!

Power Outages

SUB-REGIONS: BANGLADESH!
Born in 1971, Pakistan is its mother

Poor, not developed, natural disasters

Muslim but not fundamentalist

SUB-REGIONS: THE MOUNTAINOUS NORTH!
Landlocked Countries

Buffer States

Hinduism vs Buddhism

Tensions with China

SUB-REGIONS: THE SOUTHERN ISLANDS!
Maldives and Global Warming plus drugs

Sri Lanka: Buddhist Nation vs Tamil Muslims

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Barrier analysis

See attached

Propane Investigation

Part 1: Events and Causal Factors Chart

event

Causal factor

The explosion of the propane tank

There are many causal factors associated with the explosion of the propane tank. Firstly, the tank location was not identified as a hazard during the audit program and Ferrell gas inspection. For more than ten years, the tank remained against the building. Secondly, the junior technician was not well trained on the incident he was working on. Furthermore, such a case should not be handled solely, so the junior technician was not supposed to work alone.

Death of employees

According to the report, ten people died, including the emergency responders. The causal factor is that the emergency responders were not well trained in evacuation response in case of an explosion.

Entry of propane to the general store

The causal factor for the entry of propane to the store was small openings in the roof overhang. Had the gaps been repaired, then there would be no leakage into the general store

fire

Ignition started shortly after the explosion

Part 2: potential causal factors

There are several causal factors to the events that occurred on the day of the explosion. A defect in the propane tank’s withdrawal valve led to the liquid propane’s leakage. After the leakage of the liquid propane, the employees, the emergency responders, and the service technicians did not evacuate the store immediately, leading to casualties.
Lack of enough training for the junior technician led to the spilling of the liquid propane since he could not detect the defect on the valvelack of supervision and teamwork in the store. The technician was servicing the tank alone without supervision. The firefighters in West Virginia are supposed to be trained frequently, but the Ghent volunteer captain had not trained for years on hazardous response (Willacy et al., 2007).
Delay in transporting the propane to transport of the propane tank to the newly developed tank was also a causal factor in the explosion. Placing the tank, which carried 500 gallons of propane, next to a building also contributed to releasing the liquid propane to the store (Willacy et al., 2007).

CSB’s report versus the causal factors

The CSB’s (chemical safety and hazard investigation board) findings were similar to the causal factors though there are some key issues they did not capture in their report. The CSB’s report does not indicate that the firefighters’ Ghent volunteer captain had not trained for years on matters concerning response to a hazardous emergency. The report did not suggest that the junior technician was not supervised and working alone on the day of the explosion. The CSB does not suggest that the tank had a valve defect which caused led to a malfunction.
More analysis is needed on this issue of a propane explosion to fill the gaps. Research should be done to indicate the fire source that led to casualties and deaths. More analysis should be done to determine the required training for the junior technicians and how they should respond to such emergencies.

References

Willacy, S. K., Phylaktou, H. N., Andrews, G. E., & Ferrara, G. (2007). Stratified propaneair explosions in a duct vented geometry: Effect of concentration, ignition and injection position.
Process Safety and Environmental Protection,
85(2), 153-161. Read the U.S. Chemical Safety Board investigation report of the 2007 propane explosion at the Little General Store in Ghent, WV. The final report can be read/downloaded at the following link:
https://www.csb.gov/assets/1/20/csbfinalreportlittlegeneral.pdf?13741.
Additional information on the incident, including a video summary, can be found at the following link:
http://www.csb.gov/little-general-store-propane-explosion/
NOTE: This is the same investigation report used to create the events and causal factors (ECF) chart in Unit IV.
Complete the assignment as detailed below.
Part I: From the information in the report, create a three-column barrier analysis worksheet. Use the sample form on page 173 of the course textbook as a template, and follow the instructions below:
a. In the first column, list the barriers. Group the barriers by category (failed, not used, did not exist).
b. In the second column, describe the intended function of each barrier.
c. In the third column, evaluate the performance of the barrier.
Part II: On a separate page, discuss the potential causal factors that are revealed in the analysis. Are there additional causal factors that were not identified in the ECF chart you created in the Unit IV assignment? This part of the assignment should be a minimum of one page in length.
Upload Parts I and II as a single document. For Part II of the assignment, you should use academic sources to support your thoughts. Any outside sources used, including the sources mentioned in the assignment, must be cited using APA format and must be included on a references page.